Ethical issues are important in open-domain conversational ai.
And the perspective of deontological ethics views objectivity as being equally important [1]}, [2]}, [3]}.
Deontological ethics is a philosophy that emphasizes duty or responsibility over the outcome achieved in decision-making [4]}, [5]}.
Responsible research in conversational ai requires compliance to ethical guidelines or regulations, such as the gdpr, which is a regulation protecting persons with regards to their personal data [6]}.
Some of the ethical issues that are of concern in conversational ai are privacy, due to pii, toxic/hateful messages as a result of the training data and unwanted bias (racial, gender, or other forms) [7]}, [8]}.
